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Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research (AEBMR), volume 46
1st Economics and Business International Conference 2017 (EBIC 2017)
The Effect of The Political Environment and The
Economic Environment on The Welfare of
Community
Agus Tripriyono Erlina
Universitas Sumatera Utara Universitas Sumatera Utara
Medan, Indonesia Medan, Indonesia
agustripriyono@usu.ac.id erlina@usu.ac.id
Iskandar Muda
Universitas Sumatera Utara
Medan, Indonesia
iskandar1@usu.ac.id
Abstract—This study aims to examine the influence of the beyond simply understanding the ongoing political trends.
political environment and the economic environment on the They are always asked to be able to identify the real political
welfare of society. The independent variable of this research is actors who are the center of power by continuously updating
the political environment and the economic environment and its the existing political map. Sustainable Development affirms
dependent variable is the welfare of society. This type of the balance of the three pillars of social, economic, and
research is descriptive quantitative. The type of data used is the environmental aspects [26]. Regional development strategy
primary data using ordinal scale. The population is 295 oriented to the fulfillment of the needs of a region to improve
respondents with selected sample type with Purposive Sampling its function and role in organizing social life, economy,
as many as 205 respondents spread in North Sumatera Province. culture, education and community welfare. Community
Analyzer used with Structural Equation Modeling approach welfare is an important part of the development of a region,
with SMART-PLS software. The results show that the variables especially in rural areas that are very vulnerable and hard to
of the political environment and the economic environment face changes that are global scale [25]. The change should
affect the welfare of the people. consider the aspects of sustainable development. One of those
aspects is wise consideration in the utilization of the potential
Keywords—political environment; economic environment; of natural resources to accelerate the welfare of the
community welfare community.
Community welfare is a condition that shows
community life that can be seen from the standard of
I. INTRODUCTION community life. The income per capita level does not fully
In developing countries, the political environment has a reflect the level of welfare because of the weakness that
real effect on the success and failure of the company through comes from imperfections in the calculation of national
the opportunities and business threats it generates. No less income and income per capita and the weakness that stems
important than the economic environment, because often the from the fact that the level of community welfare is not only
market mechanisms in developing countries have not been determined by income levels but also other factors. [27]
Public welfare which is one indicator of the economic
fully and transparently working. The government has many growth of a region is strongly influenced by the financial
reasons for nationalism, development acceleration, decisions made by the Regional Government [2]. According to
development equity, correction of market failure mechanisms the International City/County Management Association
to intervene. The government emerged as a mega and (ICMA), there are several factors that influence the local
metaphor. There are still many investment decisions, government's financial decisions. They are: (1) Political
allocation of funds, selection of partners is made more based Environment, (2) economic environment, (3) Social
on political considerations[1]. Therefore, executives in environment, and (4) Legal environment [3]. Economic
developing countries are required to have an understanding
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growth of North Sumatra Province have a positive growth in This research explores the perspective of local
every single year. There was a significant increasing every governments on the citizen survey, neighborhood forum, and
year. Achieving the results of development is felt by the town hall meeting-based governance entities being developed
community was a development aggregate of 33 districts/cities by these initiatives. It asks to what extent local government
in North Sumatra Province which. Those were the joint efforts sees such efforts as appropriate responses to community
between the government and the community. The economy of needs, interests, and circumstances, or to what extent they
North Sumatra, measured by the increase of Gross Regional might be seen as intruding into the representative and
Domestic Product (GRDP) at constant price from 2010 to provisionary functions of local government [16]. Economic
2016 was 5.02 percent. Compared to 2015 there was growth and unemployment have a close relationship due
acceleration 4.84 percent. working people contribute to producing goods and services
Based on the production approach, the highest growth whereas unemployment does not contribute.
was achieved by Health Service and social activities of 7.92 The welfare of the community in an area is affected by
percent. The structure of the North Sumatra economy in the the financial decisions made by the local government
first quarter of 2016 was still dominated by three main concerned. As described early, local and central government
business fields: agriculture, forestry, and fisheries by 22.89 financial decisions are strongly influenced by (1) the Political
percent; the processing industry by 19.28 percent; as well as Environment, (2) the economic environment, (3) the Social
large-retail trade and auto-motorcycle repairs by 17.71 environment, and (4) the legal environment [17] & [18].Based
percent. Based on the opinion of some experts under normal on the previous explanation, the authors see the importance of
circumstances, increasing GDP is causing greater government doing research and analysis deeper to find a formula of
revenue, but government spending is getting bigger. For local financial decisions that will improve the welfare of the
governments tax revenue is one of the most significant income community In North Sumatra Province.
posts. According to Peacok and Wiseman [4], that society has The model developed from the theories was :
a level of tax tolerance, a level which people can understand
the amount of taxes required by the government to finance Figure 1. Research Model
government spending. Political conflicts can be non-
permanent, revolutionary, and/or disjointed; and basically can
be categorized as riots, domestic war, and conspiracy. The riot
(turmoil) is an instantaneous upheaval on a very large scale
against the regime in power. The internal war means large-
scale organized violence against the government. Conspiracy
is a planned and instantaneous action in the form of violence
against the ruling party.
Political conflicts can affect business either directly or
indirectly. Direct effects are forms of violence against
corporations such as executive kidnappings, destruction of
company property, labor strikes, and so on. The immediate
effect is temporary and will not incur huge losses. Indirect
effects occur because of policy changes within the
government. In other words, political conflict causes some
changes in the economic perspective of government. The II. METHOD
change may come from the attitude of the ruling or new This study uses primary data. The hypothesis was
government. The change may be encouraged by good faith to tested by using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with the
fix things or to divert general attention from an internal aid of SMART PLS software. The data analysis technique in
problem. this research employed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
Local governments should be able to operate their SEM is a set of statistical techniques allowing testing of a
activities independently. Local government is required to series of relationships simultaneously. Furthermore, in the
improve its public services. Therefore, the local government data processing, the writer used the aid from software
expenditure focus in economic expenditure, social expenditure SMART-PLS Structural Equation Modeling, which was one
and infrastructure expenditure (also called by development of the multivariate analyses capable of analyzing the variable
expenditure) than indirect expenditure [12], [13], [14], [15]. relationships in complex manner [15], [16] & [17]. The
Development expenditures were a logical effort undertaken by definition fo research variable is as the following:
local governments to increase public confidence in order to
improve the welfare of the community.
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TABLE 1. Variable Measurement III. RESULT
No. Variable Definition Indicator Scale The measurement model links between latent variables
1. Political Community 1. Citizen surveys Likert with manifest variables as follows:
Environment involvement in 2. Neighborhood
the process of forums
budgeting 3. Town hall Figure2. Standardization Coefficient
meetings
4. Interactive
websites
2. Economic Economic 1. Economic cycle likert
Environment condition 2. Inflation
affecting the 3. Interest Rate
budgeting 4. Competition
process between local
government
7 Community Community 1. revenue Likert
Welfare welfare is a 2. healthy
condition that 3. education
shows
community life
that can be seen
from the
standard of
community life From the data processing the political environment and
economic environment have a positive and significant effect
The hypotheses were tested using Structural Equation on welfare of society. What appears to be occurring at the
Modeling (SEM) with AMOS software tools. The equation is local level is that city and county managers and their
formed as follows: legislative boards are increasingly using the budget to better
understand how citizens, rather than internal participants, see
Y = α + b X + b X +e ………………. (1) government. The budget is the most important instrument in
1 1 2 2 the economic policies of the Indonesian government and this
represents a comprehensive statement of the State's priorities.
X = Political environment As citizens, we also rely heavily on the state to provide crucial
1 services and infrastructure. Public budget is a form of
X2 = Economic environment relationship between taxpayer citizens and apparatus. Such a
Y = Community Welfare transformation will have a major effect on budget allocations
b1, b2, b3 = Coefficient and the relative size of city and county agencies. Democracy
α = Constant in the last decade has also colored history in the political
e = Error system in Indonesia. It is characterized by a person's freedom
to express opinions through print and electronic media that are
This phase is done to test the suitability of the model to thought to be able to channel their ideas and voices. The
evaluate the goodness-of-fit index. Analysis using SEM development of the world of journalism which in the pre-
requires some suitability index to measure the correctness of reform era seems restrained by the Government also plays a
data and models to be filed. role in guarding the transition of political system in Indonesia.
After the reform era, the once centralized governmental
activities turned into decentralization in the form of broad,
real and responsible autonomy. The authority of broad
autonomy is the flexibility of the Region to administer the
government which covers the authority of all areas of
government, except for the authority in the field of foreign
policy, defense, security, judiciary, monetary and fiscal,
religious and other fields of authority to be stipulated by
Government Regulation.
Public budget is no different from other budgets. That
is how to make a choice between the possibilities of spending,
balance and the process of deciding it. However, public
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budgets have a different kind, such as being open, involving balance needs across constituencies citywide, that they lack
different actors in their different purposes, using budget accountability mechanisms, and that they cannot assume
documents as a form of public accountability, and limitations responsibilities that are assigned by statute to government.
to be considered. In fact, we should anticipate greater diversity The result of this study support of [5]
among local governments in type and quality of services Urban neighborhoods have been a recurring focus of
provided, particularly as communities develop reputations for social policy and organized social action in the United States
having strengths in particular services. And given the at least since the Progressive Era [6] [7]. Efforts to organize
powerful differences in service preferences that have been social action at the neighborhood level to identify needs,
documented among age groups, we should also anticipate deliver services, provide channels of communication to
further segmentation of communities along generational lines. articulate grievances and express priorities, and engage in
Types of citizen involvement to obtain citizen feedback: physical, commercial, and economic development have been
Citizen surveys fueled by actors in both the public and voluntary sectors.
Neighborhood forums In some cases, the relationship between the city and
Town hall meetings neighborhood-based governance structures has entailed a
Interactive websites degree of devolution of authority over decision making (as
The information obtained from public is very useful for with budget allocations for some infrastructure development
the government. In fact, this community survey has not been projects) or management (as in coproduction arrangements for
implemented optimally. It is necessary to analyze how to form certain types of service delivery)[8], [9], & [10]. These
an effective survey so as to capture the aspirations of the findings suggest that the notion of engaging citizen survey,
community. Managers of private sector have learned how to town hall meeting and neighborhood forums level actors in
getting closer to customers, understanding customer need and aspects of governance and collective action beyond the formal
ensuring that their product and service meet customer need. political structures of local government and beyond the formal
Besides that private sector manager receive feedback political process of voting continues to thrive in American
continuously how well they are doing. A key to improving cities. However, there is a lack of clarity (and, perhaps,
government performance, manager of public sector must get a agreement) about how best to structure relative roles,
better understanding of social needs. Public sector managers responsibilities, and appropriate forums for public debate and
don’t have mechanisms as gauge of their success. To action. Further, community building initiatives are just one
minimize their feedback gap, some managers of government mechanism through which the functions of neighborhood
have used community needs assessment and other survey based governance operate in any given local context [11],
techniques like neighborhood forum to gauge the effectiveness [12], [13], [19], [20]. To fully understand the potential (as
of their operation, identify unmet public needs and improve well as the limitations) of the various approaches to
public service. neighborhood-based governance, we will have to focus on the
Public participation is the process by which an relational aspects of their work, and on the components of
organization consults with interested or affected individuals, successful negotiation between the entities, their
organizations, and government entities before making a constituencies, and the local government. More than a
decision. Public participation is two-way communication and particular organizational structure or a formally acknowledged
collaborative problem solving with the goal of achieving set of roles and relationships, the success of neighborhood-
better and more acceptable decisions. Public participation in based governance mechanisms seems dependent on the
the process of implementation of financial management structuring of relationships and the ongoing negotiation of
especially visible in the budgeting process [12], [13], [14] & connections, responsibilities, expectations, and lines of
[15]. In the budgeting process, the local government has accountability. Economic growth is a common indicator used
always held a Planning Meeting with public (in Indonesian is to see the success of development. Economic growth is very
called Musrenbang)[2]. important and needed, because without economic growth
The research found that, in general, the citizen survey, will not increase welfare, employment, productivity, and
neighborhood forum, and town hall meeting-based governance income distribution. Growth the economy is also
entities created by community-building initiatives are important to prepare the economy to go through the
accepted by and acceptable to local governments. In fact, stages of progress.
manager of local government sees a benefit in working with This research found that economic environment
and through identifiable organizations and community leaders has a significant effect to community welfare, if there
who can broker relationships and provide apparent legitimacy are a lower interest rate and the lower inflation will
to government activities in the neighborhood. However, public increase community welfare. And on the other hand, if
officials did identify a number of limitations of such entities
that they should inform but not make policy, that they cannot
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